Re: key generation: email-address necessary?

2010-02-28 Thread Ingo Klöcker
On Saturday 27 February 2010, Doug Barton wrote: On 02/26/10 10:34, Martin Bretschneider wrote: Hi, I want to recreate my GnuPG keys. My question is if I can omit the email address? Since I do not want my email addresses to appear on the keyservers because of spammers and so on.

Re: How to give the keywork from command line.

2010-02-28 Thread Mario Castelán Castro
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 February 27th 2010 in gnupg-users@gnupg.org thread Hot to give the keyword from the command line Thanks Laurent, it works :). -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux)

Re[2]: key question

2010-02-28 Thread MFPA
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Hi John On Saturday 27 February 2010 at 10:21:20 PM, you wrote: MFPA wrote: My contention is that the de facto standard of revealing email addresses in key UIDs could actually be mitigating *against* the use of encrypted mail, by

Re: OFF LIST

2010-02-28 Thread Faramir
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Charly Avital escribió: Hi, news of the 8.8, or 8.3 earthquake that has stricken Chile have been posted in many on-line dailies. ... I have also e-mailed Faramir directly, trying to have news. Yes, we already exchanged an email yesterday.

Re: Re[2]: key question

2010-02-28 Thread David Shaw
On Feb 28, 2010, at 12:54 AM, MFPA wrote: On Saturday 27 February 2010 at 11:19:43 PM, you wrote: GnuPG doesn't, at least as of 1.4.10, force you to include an e-mail address in your user ID. It merely requests an e-mail address, and you can just press enter and ignore the request.

Re: key question

2010-02-28 Thread David Shaw
On Feb 27, 2010, at 4:54 PM, Grant Olson wrote: Doh! Originally sent off list... Maybe Robert got a psychic vibe... On 2/27/2010 2:21 PM, MFPA wrote: I don't want such a vote. Whether somebody chooses to include an email address in their UID is up to the individual. I have not seen

Re: key question

2010-02-28 Thread reynt0
On Sat, 27 Feb 2010, Paul Richard Ramer wrote: . . . Speculation isn't any more progress than an idea is action. Speculation buttressed with facts leads, in time, to progress. But speculation, . . . And speculation often has the very useful effect of stimulating search for new facts where

Re: Fwd: Re: key question

2010-02-28 Thread reynt0
On Sun, 28 Feb 2010, MFPA wrote: . . . no way to prove you're MFPA. So I can't sign your key. If you knew me personally, you could. And as I already said, do you know MFPA's not my legal identity? There used to be somebody in my town who had officially changed his name to FREFF. (Never did

Re: key question

2010-02-28 Thread Grant Olson
That isn't how the web of trust works. Well, it *can* work that way for you, since you can choose who to trust and who not to, but that's not the information encoded in there. I know dozens of people on the net. I've exchanged encrypted mail with them, I've worked with them, in some case

Re: key question

2010-02-28 Thread reynt0
On Sat, 27 Feb 2010, Robert J. Hansen wrote: . . . The perfect is the enemy of the good. Just to note, did RJH actually intend to write ...the enemy of the good enough., which I believe is the usual quote? The two are rather different ideas, even more so if morality has been included as an

OmniKey 6121 OpenPGP Smartcard v2.0

2010-02-28 Thread Chris Ruff
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Just wanted to share that while the OmniKey 6121 USB Reader for ID-000 cards is stated to work on the Fellowship HOW-TO page, when using the OpenPGP v2.0 card it requires the actual OmniKey drivers to be fully supported. I've confirmed this on both

Re: key question

2010-02-28 Thread Robert J. Hansen
The perfect is the enemy of the good. It's a pretty common engineering maxim. It's not a statement about morality -- or, at least, it wasn't my intent for it to be taken as such. For an excellent engineering example of the difference between perfect and good, compare Project Xanadu to the

Re: key question

2010-02-28 Thread David Shaw
On Feb 27, 2010, at 3:23 PM, Robert J. Hansen wrote: I agree that generally speaking, it's a good idea to put keys on the keyservers. I don't know if that makes it conventional wisdom, or who the arbiter of such wisdom might be, but clearly a very common use of OpenPGP is for encrypted

Re: key question

2010-02-28 Thread David Shaw
On Feb 28, 2010, at 4:20 PM, reynt0 wrote: On Sat, 27 Feb 2010, Robert J. Hansen wrote: . . . The perfect is the enemy of the good. Just to note, did RJH actually intend to write ...the enemy of the good enough., which I believe is the usual quote? The two are rather different ideas,

Re: key question

2010-02-28 Thread Robert J. Hansen
You can certainly tell a lot about someone by the signatures on their key. Either directly from the signature or because those signatures point to other keys that have their own signatures, etc. With your permission, may I see what I can find from the signatures on your key D6B98E10? Go

Re[2]: Fwd: Re: key question

2010-02-28 Thread MFPA
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Hi reynt0 On Sunday 28 February 2010 at 9:18:55 PM, you wrote: Now all the serious ones, or maybe the merely curious, have to do is to search FREFF--or maybe buy from Google the info Google has about FREFF if nothing can be found easily by a

Re: key question

2010-02-28 Thread David Shaw
On Feb 28, 2010, at 8:09 PM, Robert J. Hansen wrote: You can certainly tell a lot about someone by the signatures on their key. Either directly from the signature or because those signatures point to other keys that have their own signatures, etc. With your permission, may I see what I

Re: key question

2010-02-28 Thread Robert J. Hansen
Understood, and I agree it makes no such statement. However, it does make a reasonably good statement that you were physically located near that person at a certain point in time, roughly what that time was, and roughly where (geographically) it happened. This is assuming the signature is

David's findings

2010-02-28 Thread Robert J. Hansen
David and I apparently had a bit of a misunderstanding. I thought he was going to attempt to figure out information based solely on the key material: he was using it as a springboard for other research. I think that both of us are correct, given the assumptions we were making. If you have an

Re: key question

2010-02-28 Thread Paul Richard Ramer
On Sun, 2010-02-28 at 16:06 -0500, reynt0 wrote: On Sat, 27 Feb 2010, Paul Richard Ramer wrote: . . . Speculation isn't any more progress than an idea is action. Speculation buttressed with facts leads, in time, to progress. But speculation, . . . And speculation often has the very